TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 17, 2022

Saying the public has a “strong interest” in seeing the actions of federal agents during a 2018 raid on a slaughterhouse in Grainger County, U.S. Magistrate Chris Steger rejected an attempt by the agents to keep a video of the raid from being released. He has ordered it be released by Friday. Tennessee Lookout and Paul McAdoo with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press had filed for the video to be unsealed. According to news source, the video shows the U.S. government engaged in excessive force during the raid, including a segment where one agent placed his boot on the neck of a worker who was facedown with his hands behind his back.